What game is being played here?

A guided tour as location based game



Who owns the city or explicitly Oranienstraße in Berlin? Who plays here in everyday life and determines the rules of the game for the residents and commercial tenants? This guided tour offers an insight into current conflicts, looks behind the facades and also takes a look at historical developments.

Tetra Pak bomb in the O25! - Art Washing at Oranienplatz. Gentrification and speculation determine everyday life in the SO36 neighbourhood of Kreuzberg. What game is being played here?' (Welches Spiel wird denn hier gespielt?) provides insights into the speculation and profile neuroses of the new owners.

This tour is a site-specific game that rewards achievements in the game mode with badges and bonus material. Gradually, new points of interest become visible, completing the insights of the street and giving temporal context. A search for traces in urban space that reveals and questions structures of power, ownership and modern methods of art-washing.

What game is being played here?' (Welches Spiel wird denn hier gespielt?) is just available in German language.

Software
ARIS is a user-friendly, open-source platform for creating and playing mobile games, tours and interactive stories. Requirements are an iphone with iOS8 or newer.

Photos
left: Overview Points of interest
bottom left: Single view
bottom right: Received badges

Funding
'Welches Spiel wird denn hier gespielt?' was supported by a grant from Deutscher Künstlerbund and Neustart Kultur.